The Mandate Of Heaven: Confucius Analysis

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I have heard the saying “Confusions Said” since my first day in Chinese class back in 2000; however, we just focused on the some of his teachings and not necessarily the history. We had discussed that much of his teachings were actually recorded by his students, but did not really get in depth of where he got his inspiration or anything else of substance about his teachings. This week, my follow up question was the Mandate of Heaven, something that was never discussed in my Chinese class and it was rather touched briefly in the this week’s reading. Here is an interesting fact that I found interesting. The mandate was introduced in the Early Zhou Dynasty; however, the concept was later adopted and taught by Confucius as well, because it